THE SNOWBIRD 



ACH change of the sea- 

 ons, ahnost each phase 

 of the weather may be 

 associated with the ap- 

 pearance of some par- 

 ticular bird. Thus a 

 certain kind of spring 

 weather always brings 

 to memory the song of 

 the wood thrush and 

 the whistle of the bob- 

 white. One or more 

 mornings that are sure 

 to occur each year 

 cause me to think of a time late in 

 June, when in an apple orchard in the Hudson Valley 

 I watched the black-and-yellow goldfinches about their 

 nests. Other times bring fresh to mind a day deep in 

 summer when I wandered through a meadow in eastern 

 Indiana and startled the bobolinks from their lurking 

 places in the grass. 



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